Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the methodology for engaging with children and families living in poverty under the Child Poverty Strategy.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The Child Poverty Taskforce has prioritised hearing directly from children and families in the development of the child poverty strategy.

Ministers, special advisors and government officials have taken part in several sessions with children and families to inform the strategy. This has been supported by a number of partners, including the Changing Realities project and Save the Children, and has included discussion of a wide range of issues, including the effects of poverty on single parents, and the experience of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The details of the Taskforce’s engagement and supporting research with children and families will be published in the strategy.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many meetings the Child Poverty Taskforce has had with children and families living in poverty.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The Child Poverty Taskforce has prioritised hearing directly from children and families in the development of the child poverty strategy.

Ministers, special advisors and government officials have taken part in several sessions with children and families to inform the strategy. This has been supported by a number of partners, including the Changing Realities project and Save the Children, and has included discussion of a wide range of issues, including the effects of poverty on single parents, and the experience of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The details of the Taskforce’s engagement and supporting research with children and families will be published in the strategy.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the planned timetable is for the publication of the Child Poverty Strategy; and whether an (a) interim report and (b) update will be published.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Taskforce is on track to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in spring this year as set out in our framework ‘Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy’.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions on the Child Poverty Engagement Plan in which regions the Child Poverty Taskforce has had with (a) devolved governments, (b) elected mayors, (c) academia, (d) businesses and (e) civil society.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The Child Poverty Taskforce is engaging with devolved governments, elected mayors, academia, businesses and civil society, as well as children and families across the regions and nations of the UK to shape and inform the Child Poverty Strategy.

The Taskforce regularly discusses its engagement approach with ministers from all four nations, and key child poverty stakeholders such as Save the Children, IPPR, Citizens Advice, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo’s, the End Child Poverty Coalition, and the National Children’s Bureau, who arrange events on our behalf. We also have an Analytical Expert Reference Group, which brings together independent external expertise.

The full details of our engagement plan will be set out when we publish the Child Poverty Strategy.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending planning permission regulations to make the local water supplier a statutory consultees in applications to build data centres.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 15758 on 3 December 2024.

The hon. Member may also wish to know that we will be introducing secondary legislation later this year to prescribe data centres, gigafactories and laboratories as types of business or commercial development capable (on request) of being directed into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects consenting regime.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received representations from Macquarie Group on increasing the number of flights (a) to and (b) from UK airports.

Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Secretary of State for Transport has not received representations from Macquarie Group relating to increasing the number of flights to and from UK airports.

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